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Ethereum

Evan Van Ness, Ethereum

The state channel projects of the Ethereum ecosystem today released an agreement for a "single specification, laying the foundation for a fully interoperable ecosystem of State Channels applications." statechannels.org/
Context: trustless layer 2 networks have taken a long time to come to fruition with early attempts like Bitcoin's Lightning failing so far to gain much traction.
A unified foundation makes trustless offchain payment and state channels, with firm plans to ship an alpha in the next couple months.